Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter – A Peek At Gameplay

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Hello, this is the time of day where I glare at the screen over the top of my coffee mug and try to work out which bits of a gameplay trailer are gameplay and which bits are cinematics or flourishes which you maybe see while playing the game.

If you’re referring to Holmes and Watson, I think age- and general-appearance-wise both are perfectly within the parameters defined by Arthur Conan Doyle. Hotness-wise… meh. A good facial bone structure does not a male model make. Though I’ll admit they may have been aiming for ‘blandly hot’ and simply couldn’t pull it off.

It’s a boring, designed-by-committee face. Probably intentionally bland, to avoid looking too close to iconic actors that have played the role in movies and TV.

I think it’s a mistake. They should have come up with their own distinctive face. It can’t be that hard to come up with something that doesn’t look like Rathbone, Brett, or Cucumberbatch without picking generic male model face #5.

I spent the whole trailers being irritated by the character model and the voice, neither of which say Sherlock Holmes to me. It was highly distracting. All I could think was that he could have changed into a leather jacket and not have been out of place in Alan Wake or the like. Doesn’t work for me at all, this.